SELECTED SOCIO - ECONOMIC INDICATORS - 2009

Item	Year	Unit	Puducherry	Karaikal	Mahe	Yanam	Union Territory
Area
Area	2001 Census	Sq.km.	293	160	9	17	479
Density	"	per sq.km.	2510	1067	4092	1847	2034
Towns	"	No.	3	1	1	1	6
Population	2001 Census	lakh	7.35	1.71	0.37	0.31	9.74
Urban Population	"	%	68.81	43.58	100.00	100.00	66.57
Rural Population	"	%	31.19	56.42	--	--	33.43
Male	"	%	50.24	49.47	46.58	50.62	49.98
Female	"	%	49.76	50.53	53.42	49.37	50.02
Decadal growth	"	%	20.88	17.22	10.11	54.67	20.62
Sex ratio	"	per ‘000 Males	990	1022	1147	975	1001
Literacy rate
Persons	2001 Census	%	80.66	81.94	95.66	73.72	81.24
Male	"	%	88.44	89.40	97.64	78.82	88.62
Female	"	%	72.84	74.68	93.98	68.50	73.90
Projected Population - 2009		in lakh	8.55	1.94	0.40	0.43	11.31
Rain fall	July'08 to May'09	mm	1620	1445	2794	947	--
Agriculture
Net area sown	2008-09	in Hect.	11756	6262	593	594	19205
Total area irrigated	"	"	19662	6553	32	521	26768
Foodgrains Production*	"	Tonnes	38218	14772	-	2066	55056
Fish Production
Marine	2008-09	M.T	19755	9299	2667	913	32634
Inland	"	"	3538	832	-	1121	5491
Animal Husbandry
Milk Production	2008-09	Tonnes	33857	10292	352	1009	45510
Egg Production	"	in. lakh No.	77.93	29.70	1.57	2.64	111.84
Public Health (Government of Puducherry Institutions)
Hospitals	2007-08	No.	5	1	1	1	8
Chest Clinic	"	"	1	-	-	-	1
Primary Health Centres	"	"	27	11	1	-	39
Community Health Centres	"	"	2	1	1	-	4
			1
Sub-Centres	2007-08	No.
Urban	"	"	17	-	4	4	25
Rural	"	"	35	17	-	-	52
ESI Dispensaries	"	"	11	1	1	1	14
Doctors*	"	"	410	98	43	35	586
Nurses*	"	"	847	278	86	60	1271
Beds	"	"	1657	645	207	102	2611
Education
Primary
i. No. of Institutions	2008-09	No.	196	79	14	12	301
ii. No. of Students	"	"	22974	6150	2128	2662	33914
Middle
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	91	22	6	2	121
ii. No. of Students	"	"	21149	5925	1764	1036	29874
Secondary
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	116	35	6	11	168
ii. No. of Students	"	"	51781	14928	2562	5086	74357
Higher Secondary
i. No. of Institutions	"	No.	74	15	5	1	95
ii. No. of Students	"	"	92980	12901	4413	350	110644
Teacher Pupil Ratio
Primary	2007-08		1:20	1:17	1:26	1:61	1:21
Middle	"		1:20	1:21	1:20	1:82	1:21
High/Higher Sec.	"		1:26	1:26	1:21	1:26	1:26
No. of girls per 100 boys
Primary	2007-08	No.	99	139	89	106	105
Middle	"	"	108	84	88	108	101
High/Higher Sec.	"	"	93	95	94	95	93
Public Distribution System
No.of Fair Price Shops	2008-09	No.	330	89	18	18	455
Ration shops run by Co-operative institutions		"	305	79	18	18	420
			2
Labour and Employment
State Government Employees	2006-07	No.	23394	5302	1553	1042	31291
Central Government Employees	"	"	4104	87	56	57	4304
Autonomous Bodies Employees	"	"	6803	782	86	104	7775
Local Bodies Employees	"	"	2053	490	61	99	2703
Banking
No. of Scheduled Commercial Banks/Branches	As on March 2009	No.	86	26	5	5	122
Deposits	"	Rs. in crore	4435	728	245	64	5472
Credit	"	"	2460	298	54	28	2840
Population per Office	"	No.	9442	7447	7953	8500	9269
Transport
Road length (by PWD)	2008-09	Km.	437.482	188.417	25.695	26.445	678.039
Regd. Motor vehicle	"	No.	46218	4744	579	232	51773
Tourism
Tourist arrival
i. Foreign Tourist	2008	No	59952	357	-	-	60309
ii. Domestic Tourist	"	"	685483	142316	-	-	827799
Co-operation
No. of Societies	2008-09	No.	361	88	27	38	514
Membership *	"	000' Nos	394.40	96.00	40.00	18.60	549.00
Primary Agricultural Credit Societies	"	No.	47	6	1	-	54
Membership *	"	"	84060	6960	180	-	91200
Rural Development
No. of groups formed under SGSY	2008-09	No.	39	40	4	29	112
No. of Houses constructed under IAY	"	"	36	16	-	-	52
Man days generated under NREGS	"	Lakh Mandays	0.01	1.64	-	-	1.65
State Income
GSDP at Current Prices	2008-09 (QE)	Lakh					1177356
NSDP at Current Prices	"	"					1045963
Per Capita income at Current Prices	"						84625
Per Capita income at Constant Prices	"						58755
*Provisional